Bailey Banefiel (senior, general studies) was named the Summit League Pitcher of the Week on February 12. She earned the honor after pitching a complete game in a 3-2 victory over IUPUI on February 10 and earning the save in a combined shutout win over Wright State on February 11. She is the first Mastodon pitcher to earn the Summit League Honor since 2014

“What we may be seeing is a small number of Republican senators who will use this as away to decide who they might support in the leadership battle,” said Andy Downs, a political scientist at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. “That is a caucus that is fighting about how far to the right it wants to go.” Read the Indy Star Article

Rachel Blakeman, director of IPFW’s Community Research Institute, compiled data for some specific traditional white-collar and blue-collar jobs for The Journal Gazette. Read The Journal Gazette Article

South Decatur High School Choral Teacher Matt Diehl is not interested in creating superstars.

He’s not an instrumentalist. Matt just loved to sing, and didn’t really decide to be a music teacher until he was a freshman in high school. So after high school, he went to Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne, and after almost changing his major a few times, decided that music was what he was most passionate about. Read the Greensburg Daily News Article